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Jul-16-16 Dallas, TX: When you're dealing with a disability or serious illness and are unable to work, the last thing you want to do is fight with your insurance company over denied disability benefits . But that's exactly what denied disability lawsuits allege has happened, over and over again. Policyholders say their insurance claims are improperly denied or de... - MRI Side-effects: The Hard Facts on NSF/NFD
Apr-27-08 Denver, CO: Having a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan using the contrasting agent gadolinium during the procedure may induce the onset of a debilitating malady commonly known as NSF/NFD . Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) is a painful condition that is characterized by the thickening and hardening of the skin�"mostly affecting the limbsï... - University of Texas Professors Fight for Gun-Free Classrooms
Jul-15-16 Austin, TX: Three female professors at the University of Texas recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas and the state of Texas seeking to prevent students from carrying guns into their classrooms. Effective August 1, a new Texas law will allow people licensed to carry concealed handguns to wear those handguns on campus and inside classro... - Consumers have had enough with DirecTV
Apr-17-08 Bend, OR: Many consumers are saying they have had it with DirecTV for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is the termination fees that they must pay for cancelling a service that is not working well for them. One consumer in Massachusetts complained to the Massachusetts Attorney General when he was forced to pay $162.50 in termination fees after he h... - Attorney Linda M. Dardarian on Structured Negotiation
Apr-12-08 Oakland, CA: Traditional litigation is often an expensive, time-consuming, and adversarial route to resolution. Sometimes it's inevitable, but some areas of law lend themselves to a collaborative approach that yields benefits for both sides. It's called structured negotiation, and Linda M. Dardarian, partner in Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dard... - Family Sues After Patient Receives Bad Lungs
Apr-7-08 Newark, NJ: All 43 year old Tony Grier of Newark wanted was a healthy set of lungs so that he could have a better quality of life. Instead, he was given lungs that were riddled with cancer and he died six months after the transplant. Now his family has filed a $100 million medical malpractice lawsuit against two hospitals, and three doctors for the 2005... - Transvaginal Mesh Warnings Added to Labels
Jul-5-16 Los Angeles, CA: One transvaginal mesh manufacturer is adding new safety labels to its pelvic meshes and slings, saying they are considered permanent implants and that removal can be complicated or impossible. Transvaginal mesh products have been used worldwide for about 15 years, mostly to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incont... - Celebrex Heart Attack: Risk Factors Remain, and so does The Drug
Apr-4-08 Chicago, IL First the good news—it appears that Celebrex taken at lower doses pose less of a risk for heart attack , than when Celebrex is taken at a higher dose. The bad news? There is a risk for heart attack either way. The COX-2 selective inhibitor manufactured by Pfizer Pharmacia has long been suspected of having links to cardiovascular eve... - With No Settlement in Sight, Attorney Says, “We’re Going to Trial!”
Jul-1-16 Sacramento, CA: It took four years for Roberto Davila and his attorney to prevail, but a California court recently awarded the 52-year-old construction worker $4.25 million for serious personal injuries suffered on the job in September of 2012. Roberto Davila was injured while working for Navajo Pipelines on a road-widening job near Roseville, Calif... - Mortgage Broker Accused of Deceptive Lending
Mar-29-08 Chicago, IL: A couple who simply wanted to lower the cost of their mortgage payments has now been forced out of their home. As a result, the Illinois Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Advantage Mortgage Consulting that alleges the lender used a number of schemes to convince customers that they would pay lower mortgage payments. Instead of mort... - Arkansas Nucor Plant Guilty of a Racially Hostile Work Environment
Birmingham, AB : The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas has ruled in favor of six plaintiffs in a race discrimination case against Nucor Corp.'s steel plant in Blytheville, AK. The rural, twelve-person jury (11 white, 1 black) unanimously determined that the Charlotte, N.C.-based company is guilty of racial hostility against... - Age Discrimination Suit Settled for $8.75 Million
Fayetteville, WV: A lawsuit alleging age discrimination, filed in 2006, was brought to a close this week with Fayette County Circuit Court approving an $8.75 million settlement. The class action was brought against Massey Energy and its subsidiary Spartan Mining Co, following its purchase of the Cannelton mining operation in 2004. The suit was led b... - Type I Recall of Propofol Injection, 1g/100mL and 500mg/50mL
Hospira Healthcare Corporation is recalling two lots of Propofol Injection, 1g/100mL, lot 79834DJ & 500 mg/50mL, lot 79883DJ, (DIN: 02236887, expiry date: 2012/07/01). The recall was initiated on October 14, 2009 and classified as a TYPE I risk as per Health Canada's recommendation due to the presence in the propofol vials of particulate matter identified as... - Chantix: A Jekyll and Hyde Personality
Mar-10-08 Marion, OH Daniel Arndt, a 44-year old father of twin boys, locked himself inside a room of the family home while everyone was away with a 12-pack of beer and two bottles of blood pressure pills. Arndt had been three weeks on Chantix , the smoking cessation drug from Pfizer that blocks nicotine from reaching key receptors in the brain. He neatly type... - Zimmer Persona Knee: They Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To
Jun-13-16 Warsaw, IN: It’s a common refrain in the modern age: things are not as they were. People don’t respect each other, or each other’s property like they used to. The politeness of old has vanished. “They don’t make ’em like they used to.” And for the most part, things aren’t built to last. One must forgive such... - Asbestos Exposure: "None of us had a Clue"
Feb-23-08 St. Petersburg, FL Steve S. had a job back in the 1980s removing asbestos from a huge General Electric plant. Now, his chronic cough is getting so bad that his doctor wants Steve to have lung tests next week. What really worries Steve is that his uncle has been diagnosed with mesothelioma —a form of cancer that is directly linked to asbestos exposure-... - Target Settles Personal Injury Suit for $7M
Department store owner and operator, Target Corporation, (Target), as well as a prominent mechanical door manufacturer, have agreed to pay $7 million to an 81 year-old woman injured when an automatic door at the Target store in Rosemont, Illinois, malfunctioned and knocked her to the ground. It is a record settlement in Cook County, Illinois, for a brain inj... - Bank of America 401(k) Plan Investigation
In January, 2008, Bank of America Corporation ("Bank of America" or the "Company") (NYSE: BAC) has announced that it had writedowns of $5.28 billion to reflect collateralized debt obligations ("CDO's"). As a result, the value of Bank of America stock owned through the Bank of America 401(k) Plans (the "Plans"), has fallen dramatically. Bank of America... - Honest Pay for an Honest Day's Work in California, including Overtime
Feb-19-08 Vallejo, CA "I have worked an average of 90 hours a week since May 21, 2007, and have been paid for a 40 hour a week schedule and to add insult to injury I was just fired," says executive chef Elbert Williams. Every week Williams received his earnings statement that totaled 86.67 hours for a two-week pay period. But his employer didn't take into account th... - Eli Lilly Settles Zyprexa Lawsuit in Connecticut
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay the state $25.1 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the drug company marketed its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses and did not adequately reveal the drug's side effects for more than 10 years. Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sued Eli Lilly last year, alleging that Lilly's...